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Split, Refactored, and Mastered

NumbersGoUpAlphaMaster.odm is a thing. So is TheMageTowerAlphaMaster.odm. They share the even-numbered files for chapter 22 of Numbers Go Up, but each has its own titles (not least because they’re subtitles in chapter 22 but chapter titles in The Mage Tower). They’re not in the Numbers Go Up table of contents. That was painful. Not as…

Book One Done?

I think it is. I need a font for the cover. I need a copy editor. But I think the writing is done. 68,271 words in 156 pages, so about 300 Kindle pages. That’s a bit short, but not unreasonably so. It is just the introduction to everything. I didn’t manage to get James, the…

Splitting Books Is Worse

I thought splitting chapters was painful. Splitting the book in half is much worse. The book one spreadsheet is updated (for Tom & Luke; not sure I need the others). That was relatively simple: I deleted all the tabs past C15 (which is now C12). Combining chapters was harder because I needed to be sure…